Pierre C. Sibiry Sibiry Traore

Sibiry Traore is a systems scientist specialized in agricultural risk control and value chain orchestration. He is, by training, a physical geographer and a remote sensing expert. With Manobi Africa and on secondment from ICRISAT, he developed agCelerant and the concept of phygital agriculture, which captures the emergent opportunity for robust, physically based, digitally driven solutions to secure the sustainability, transparency, and honorable sourcing of tomorrow’s food systems. Sibiry designed and co-led several innovative projects such as SERVIR West Africa, HEURISTICS, NADiRA and STARS, raising R&D grants from USAID, DARPA, ESA, the European Commission, the World Bank, IsDB, BMGF and others. Sibiry published over 50 peer-reviewed papers and developed novel partnerships involving the CGIAR, national agricultural research systems (NARS), NGOs, the private sector and academia. Over the past 10 years, he developed a vibrant partnership with the African Institute of Mathematical Sciences, creating internship and employment opportunities for AI/ML graduates in the agriculture and space sectors. With a long experience in the NARS (Mali) and in the African private sector (Senegal), he joined ILRI in 2025 as Senior Scientist (Digital Agriculture) where he leads activities on digital climate advisory services and designs continental programs on livestock value chains development and youth employment in the animal feed sector.